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Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
Rebecca Solnit
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Description for Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
Paperback. Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. This work represents developments in Solnit's thinking and offers you a panoramic world view enriched by her characteristically provocative, inspiring, and hopeful observations. Num Pages: 436 pages, 10 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JP; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 552. Landscapes for Politics. 436 pages, Illustrations. Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. This work represents developments in Solnit's thinking and offers you a panoramic world view enriched by her characteristically provocative, inspiring, and hopeful observations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; JP; RN. Dimension: 195 x 147 x 25. Weight: 510.
Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. "Storming the Gates of Paradise", an anthology of her essential essays from the past ten years, takes the reader from the Pyrenees to the U.S.-Mexican border, from San Francisco to London, from open sky to the deepest mines, and from the antislavery struggles of two hundred years ago to today's street protests. The nearly forty essays collected here comprise a unique guidebook to the American landscape after the millennium - not just the deserts, skies, gardens, and wilderness ... Read more
Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. "Storming the Gates of Paradise", an anthology of her essential essays from the past ten years, takes the reader from the Pyrenees to the U.S.-Mexican border, from San Francisco to London, from open sky to the deepest mines, and from the antislavery struggles of two hundred years ago to today's street protests. The nearly forty essays collected here comprise a unique guidebook to the American landscape after the millennium - not just the deserts, skies, gardens, and wilderness ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
436
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
521g
Number of Pages
436
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520256569
SKU
V9780520256569
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About Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit is the best-selling author of ten books -- among them Wanderlust, Savage Dreams, and Hollow City -- and countless articles, for which she has received numerous awards and accolades. In 2003 she won the prestigious Lannan Literary Award. Also in 2003 she won the National Book Critics Circle Award for River of Shadows.
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